The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Smeagol]

Well here at the eastern edge of the known world (Norfolk) we were forecast rain this morning. What did we get? Wet snow. Did not stick and now is sunshine interspersed with more sleety white stuff. Hopefully all gone tonight so that it will not interfere with my golf in the morning.

[PHXPhlyer]

I lost three upper teeth to periodontal disease many years ago. Had the bone grafts done in preparation for implants but never followed up due to high costs (not covered by insurance ) and tight funds .
I have finally decided to get the implants and a specialist who instructs other dentists in the art of the implant offers a steep discount for one's use as a training subject.
I have had to wait about a year and a half for my number to come up as I need an extra procedure to insure that the implant doesn't pierce my sinus cavity. This is scheduled for the end of the month but I don't know when the implants will be placed.

PP

[Smeagol]

All this talk od bone grafts, surgical implants etc., what happened to good, old fashioned false teeth? I have several.

[llondel]

Morning all. Atmospheric river sort of arrived, we've had a bit of rain. I think the bulk of it is yet to arrive though. It did rain when I took one of the dogs out this morning - was OK when I looked out, but by the time I had the leash on her and got to the door, it was raining steadily, so there was a brief pause while I retrieved and donned the rain coat.

[k3k3]

I had my two front teeth replaced in 1991, all very new and the first stage was done on a Saturday with a film crew so as to be used as a training aid, second stage after four months and and the third and final stage a couple of months later. Never had a problem and still on the original crowns. I've no doubt that the techniques used have advanced by leaps and bounds, but I'm very happy with mine.

I had lost my teeth thirteen years earlier by headbutting a Renault 4 from the inside.

[Woody]

so there was a brief pause while I retrieved and donned the rain coat.

Yours or the dogs?

[TheGreenAnger]

I had lost my teeth thirteen years earlier by headbutting a Renault 4 from the inside.

I am sure that this injury was accidently occasioned due to a car accident, or something like that, and I am sorry to hear it. I trust the new pearly whites are still in place.

Sadly I know somebody who did much the same thing due to attempting to headbutt somebody else through the side window of a car. A truly sad story of the archetypal tough guy, who finally succumbed to stress, and lost it completely after a long time in the SADF, in very difficult circumstances. I visited him in a windowless room/cell in Valkenburg hospital. His fangs were fixable, his mind not so much. He was never quite the same again!

[Karearea]

Nasty things, wild pigs.
Have not heard before of this happening here near human habitation:

...heard a noise in the garden.
Looking down, they saw a sow with six piglets. Mr Easton went to chase them off and close the gate.
What he did not see was a boar that was with them. ...

Otago Daily Times: Man knocked out in wild pig attack

[TheGreenAnger]

Nasty things, wild pigs.
Have not heard before of this happening here near human habitation:

...heard a noise in the garden.
Looking down, they saw a sow with six piglets. Mr Easton went to chase them off and close the gate.
What he did not see was a boar that was with them. ...

Otago Daily Times: Man knocked out in wild pig attack

Not totally unlike the drunken Mr. Jones, and the "1984" pigs. Mind you, 1984 wild pigs would not even be enough to make, even a South Carolina, hog farmer wealthy!

[OFSO]

Huge problem in Spain. Not just us up the mountain, where they patrol our lane at night. Wild boar attack diners sitting at outside restaurants in Barcelona. Picknickers, people having a sandwich in a park.. Adults steal food while juveniles take handbags for fun.

[Karearea]

^ hope I never see any.

Blue dome day, 12.9°C on the way up to 23°C.
Windows open, washing on the line shortly.

[TheGreenAnger]

Huge problem in Spain. Not just us up the mountain, where they patrol our lane at night. Wild boar attack diners sitting at outside restaurants in Barcelona. Picknickers, people having a sandwich in a park.. Adults steal food while juveniles take handbags for fun.

I have met a few wild bores in my time, generally at bad parties....

[Wodrick]

Just followed Henry, something, probably Boar, lurking in the bushes.
H ran all the way home.

it is still 20c as a high haze is obscuring all but the brightest stars.

[bob2s]

The trip to the lung mechanic yesterday was one of hope, Ct scan shows very little to no progress in scars forming. Doc is a bit taken aback that
it has now been 7 years since he first diagnosed the disease, this makes me one of his longest-surviving patients inflicted with this fibrosis. So I
guess I will just have to keep keeping on.

[Karearea]

^ glad to hear that, bob2s

[Hydromet]

Excellent news, Bob. Hope it stays that way.

Lots of wild pigs in Nth Qld. Remember Dad telling me of a bloke who tried to escape up a tree, and had his foot and ankle severely gnawed.
When I revisited Mt. Mulligan, where I lived as a toddler, they'd domesticated this one, whose mother had been shot.

[bob2s]

Hydro, not much use in keeping wild pigs these days as they are full of tuberculosis, at least all the ones we shot while hunting in the back blocks of NSW.

[Hydromet]

I'd believe that Bob. Used to see a few of them in the Macquarie Marshes when working there. May have been a chance of eradicating them in the '60s, but no chance now. A lot of the area is locked up now, can't even get in to take photos.

[Pinky the pilot]

Heaps of Feral pigs in the scrub only about 40km North of here.

Wouldn't go anywhere near them without something of at least 30cal! Either a SMLE in .303 or something in 308 Win. would suffice.

[OFSO]

The wild pigs in Spain often have a parasite which is lethal to humans and after being shot are handled with extreme care by the hunters until certified clear by a vet. Used to be we hardly ever saw one: now they are everywhere. (Boar, not vets.)